Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về sinh học được đăng trên tạp chí sinh học quốc tế đề tài : Community characteristics that attract physicians in Japan: a cross-sectional analysis of community demographic and economic factors | Human Resources for Health BioMed Central Research Community characteristics that attract physicians in Japan a cross-sectional analysis of community demographic and economic factors Masatoshi Matsumoto 1 Kazuo Inoue2 Satomi Noguchi2 Satoshi Toyokawa2 and Eiji Kajii1 Address division of Community and Family Medicine Centre for Community Medicine Jichi Medical University Tochigi Japan and 2Department of Public Health Graduate School of Medicine University of Tokyo Tokyo Japan Email Masatoshi Matsumoto - matmo10@ Kazuo Inoue - inouek@ Satomi Noguchi - snogu-tky@ Satoshi Toyokawa - t-satoshi@ Eiji Kajii - kajiieij@ Corresponding author Open Access Published 18 February 2009 Received 18 August 2008 Human Resources for Health 2009 7 12 doi l478-449l-7-l2 Accepted 18 February 2009 This article is available from http content 7 l l2 2009 Matsumoto et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background In many countries there is a surplus of physicians in some communities and a shortage in others. Population size is known to be correlated with the number of physicians in a community and is conventionally considered to represent the power of communities to attract physicians. However associations between other demographic economic variables and the number of physicians in a community have not been fully evaluated. This study seeks other parameters that correlate with the physician population and show which characteristics of a community determine its attractiveness to physicians. Methods Associations between the number of physicians and selected demographic economic life-related variables of all of Japan s 3l32 .
